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Thanks! Me too! :)

This is the fallacy that's driving this -- the assumption that people have two choices about how to spend their time and energy: 1. "Fun" SO / SE questions. 2. Serious SO /SE quest…

It's all about plausible deniability.... Seriously, I don't think I would dismiss the whole of SE as goofing off if its scope boundaries were relaxed a bit.

Speaking for myself, clicking on a "chat" link crosses a threshold for me from "I'm taking a break and checking stuff out" to "I'm goofing off." Maybe I'm kidding myself that my ch…

I think the reason I find myself resisting this is that what you are saying is that you don't want us as whole people, you just want the specific parts of us that "make Stack Overf…

Well, it was, but now the moderation there is even more draconian.

What percentage of closed questions are translated to one of the above bullet points?